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consciousness, or the identification with the body, almost ceases. You are no longer interested in working out things on the plane of the physical because at the level of the astral you have got all that you want for inward knowledge to reach up to the highest point.
It is necessary, at this stage, to point out that many people think that by going to such a level they can bring the force and the power of that consciousness for their own material purposes in this world. They want to use the powers of the higher, inner life for outer manifestation and aggrandizement. And that is exactly where the yogis have warned us that once you take the inward path it is dangerous to come down. It is almost tantamount to a fall, and the result is yoga-bhrashtata. But some of us need not be afraid of it, perhaps! But if you look at it from the point of view of our ultimate aspiration to know reality in its truth-ness, then we have got to make a still higher approach to Reality. And that approach to Reality is a dimension beyond the Cosmos. And to this level most of the abhyasis in our system are led in the course of a few years. When they reach that level or arrive at that level, you find that they are quite a different type of men, with a different purposiveness of being devoted ultimately to the Divine work. A love of God comes more freely to them than a love of themselves or a love of the world. Now, at that level, when one becomes really a 'Prapanna' as Master would put it, one who has totally given up himself to the work of the Divine, there open up new frontiers of spirituality.
It has been stated that much of that experience cannot be described at all. Firstly because they are not natural to us, but they are natural to the Divine consciousness. It is something that you have yourself to experience if you want to know the full meaning and significance of that experience. Now this is the level you are taken to. Up to this level many people have taken us, perhaps, but beyond that Shri Ram Chandraji speaks about a level of consciousness which, perhaps, is not consciousness in the normal sense of the term, when it is confronting a prospect or an object. There is no longer a subject-object-knowledge relationship. It goes far beyond that, where the subject, the object and knowledge are all one. But I think it is a meaningless statement for most of us metaphysicians who are yet thinking in terms of our ordinary knowledge. But it has been promised to most that such an experience is a possibility and the culmination of our experience.